The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H. Lawrence

No time to get out to see Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit, Part 1″ (2012)? Here is a (generally unknown) Russian language filming of “The Hobbit” from 1985. The casting, production values, and music are not quite competitive, but it is fun to hear the dialogue in Russian.